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If you’re part of the Alpha ring for Xbox One Insiders you’ll likely get (or have) a notification for your first system update of 2018. Details of it can be found on Major Nelson and the additions sound useful with an enhanced achievement tracker, a Do Not Disturb […]

December’s Games with Gold have been announced and it’s admittedly a quieter month than expected but there is variety there which should at least provide something for everyone. As reported on Major Nelson’s site, the following games will soon be available: Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide – Dec 1-31, […]

Microsoft’s newest console, the Xbox One X, has been out in the wild for more than a day now and both Grocs and I have our Scorpio Editions plugged in at our homes. With reviews coming in from big outlets and plenty of online feedback I’ll be wondering […]

The announcement by Major Nelson for next month’s Xbox Games with Gold takes a more adventurous angle this time on Xbox One with: Gone Home: Console Edition – Oct 1-31, Xbox One The Turing Test – Oct 16-June 15, Xbox One Rayman 3 HD – Oct 1-15, Xbox […]

This is a bit of a surprise – Bethesda’s free to play spin-off of Fallout 4 will be arriving on Xbox One and Windows 10 as a full Xbox Play Anywhere title. Previously on iOS, Android and PC via the Bethesda.net launcher, Fallout Shelter tasks you as Overseer […]

It’s been a long time coming but Burnout Paradise finally arrives as a backward compatible title on Xbox One. The open world racer/crash’em’up might not have been everyone’s cup of tea but I had a lot of fun with it and went all out on the DLC which […]

Months after its reveal at the E3 Microsoft event, Clubs functionality has finally arrived for Xbox One users in the form of the Xbox Holiday Update. Allowing users to set up their own communities within Xbox Live, the new feature helps foster the kinds of gaming groups often […]

First up for me on day two of PAX Australia 2016 was to return to the Main Theatre for The Penny Arcade “Make a Strip” session. It’s always fun to go as it is basically a Q&A with Mike and Jerry combined with a live drawing of a […]

The first day of PAX Australia is usually the busiest for me in terms of the panels I tend to visit – it’s not unusual to simply stay seated in one of the theatres and wait for the next rounds of panelists to come in. For the “Story […]

At the end of his story time keynote at PAX Australia, Xbox Live’s Major Nelson revealed that he tried to arrange to have all the attendees get a free “Xbox Onesie” as a gift. However the logistics of that became impossible so he did the next best thing […]